Career Education Personnel Development: Ideas for University Planning. Draft.

McKinney, Lorella A.; And Others

Responding to the need for qualified personnel for career education, the authors designed the guide for use by university program or instructional planners in the preparation of undergraduate/graduate personnel for implementing career education in grades K-12. The basic components of the document consist of: (1) 105 broad general goals in career education personnel development significant to quality career education for integration into existing educational personnel preparation programs; (2) two or more alternative strategies for achieving each of the 105 goals; and (3) 25 university staff approaches for integrating career education into existing university personnel development courses or programs. Goals and alternative strategies were developed from a synthesis of field data collected by classroom observation and interviews in 25 university/college sites in the United States, appropriate data selected from the literature, and project staff training and experience. Appendix A consists of information relative to interest and efforts in career education collected informally from additional university sites. Appendix B is a listing of contributors to the data collection. An index of terms common to teacher education preparation and career education concepts, coded to the 105 goals, is also included. (EA)